METAL STAPLES STAPLER
Stapler with metal staples to apply staples with their longitudinal axis inclined by angular degrees relative to the plane of the stapler, particularly useful to staple, despite its relatively small stapling depth, the sheets of a newspaper in their spine folding as well as, centrally, both open foolscap sheets arranged one on top of the other and sheets folded as an exercise book and to correctly but easily staple sheets arranged one on top of the other in their top left corner.
This application claims benefit of Serial No. TO2013A000438, filed 30 May 2013 in Italy and which application is incorporated herein by reference. To the extent appropriate, a claim of priority is made to the above disclosed application.
BACKGROUNDThe present invention relates to a metal staples stapler.
In particular, the present invention relates to a stapler with metal staples that enables the application of staples on the top left corner of the documents to be stapled as well as the application of staples on the central vertical line of sheets arranged on top of one another and making up, for example, dossiers consisting of foolscap sheets of paper, exercise books, newspapers. The invention, in order to be better understood, will be explained using an example in which it is applied so as to facilitate the reading of a newspaper. This type of application, though, is numerically negligible compared to the applications that the invention will be subject to in the daily routine, where it will replace the use of current “plier” staplers in many occasions, especially in public offices and commercial offices of companies.
A newspaper is consulted and/or read while it is held by the hands of the reader or while it lies on a surface, such as a table, a desk, etc. In the first type of consulting and/or reading, the reader, in order to consult and/or read both the even pages and the odd pages on the inside of the newspaper, is forced to counter-fold the sheets, each comprising four pages, on their back. This counter-folding, in order to be performed in an acceptable manner and allow the reader to read all the pages on the inside of the newspaper, features a remarkable handling difficulty, as all readers know, especially when the reader is dealing with newspapers consisting of numerous sheets, and requires a great amount of time. This discomfort will be reduced with this new type of stapler with metal staples, which, despite being similar to current staplers, differs from them due to its ability to enable the application of staples with an axis that is inclined, for example by forty-five angular degrees, relative to the axis of the stapler, thus allowing the sheets of the newspaper to be stapled on the supposed—since it is not printed—central line of the spine, despite the stapler being provided with a relatively small stapling depth consisting in the distance between the symmetrical closing groove of the staples and the striker of the sheets inserted into the relative compartment of the stapler.
SUMMARYThe metal staples applied by this stapler are necessarily novel and are part of the invention.
An aspect of the present invention relates to a stapler for metal staples that uses sticks and made up of the staples.
The features and advantages of the stapler according to the present invention will be best understood upon perusal of the following detailed description of at an embodiment with reference to the accompanying drawings, which schematically show what follows:
In
As known, the staples of the staplers currently available on the market, are laterally glued to the adjacent ones, so as to build a stick of metal staples. Similarly, the new type of stapler uses suitable metal staples that are laterally glued to the adjacent ones, so as to build a new type of staple stick. This new type of suitable metal staples is shown in
The reason for this difference, based on the drawings of
It should be pointed out that the partial gluing between the legs of adjacent staples increases as said angle decreases and as the ratio between the height and the base of the rectangular section of the legs increases. A gluing between legs with said ratio equal to two units would be equal to the width of the legs, namely to the base of the rectangle of their section (
In order to adopt metal staples having legs with a square-shaped section, the gluing between adjacent crowns needs to be so effective as to ensure to the stick the stiffness needed by it to be handled, without involving a manual difficulty of the operator when the staples are being applied. Another possibility to adopt said type of metal staples consists in applying, during the manufacturing procedure, under and/or on each stick, a suitable adhesive tape that joins the crowns of the staples and is adapted to allow the stick to be handled as well as to be cut by the blade of the stapler, without involving manual difficulties for the operator when the staple is being applied. The stapler according to the present invention, like the majority of the current staple models, consists of three main mechanical components that are the dispenser, the actuating lever, and the case.
Dispenser S is shown in
Actuating lever L is shown in
The actuating lever is shown in
In order to describe and explain the present invention, which substantially relates to changes to be made to some components of the staplers currently available on the market, so that they can apply metal staples with their axis inclined by some angular degrees relative to the axis of the stapler and not at a right angle, as it normally happens with traditional staplers, we have chosen a stapler provided with a kinematic mechanism that is one of the simplest mechanisms currently available. This kinematic mechanism consists of a few components, among which there are, for example, a single pin a simple pusher. Many current models of staplers with metal staples are provided with kinematic mechanisms that are more complex than the one described and explained herein, which thus generally require more than one pin and more than one spring; some models also having a dispenser that can be loaded from the top. Obviously, the present invention is relative to all the models of staplers with metal staples that are currently being produced and will be designed in the future.
As mentioned above, the present invention, which can also be used to facilitate the reading of newspapers, allows sheets folded as an exercise book and open foolscap sheets to be stapled, but it mainly allows sheets to be joined and stapled by means of a metal staple that is very easily applied on their top left corner and has a direction that makes it easier for readers to consult the sheets without damaging them, contrary to the currently very frequent direction of the diagonal of the sheets between the top left corner and the bottom right corner. Therefore, this invention is very useful in offices, schools, and at home.
As known, there are two categories of manual staplers with metal staples: “plier” staplers and “table” staplers. Even though the present invention was described with reference to the “plier” stapler category, it can be applied to both categories.
Claims
1. A stick of metal staples for a stapler, each staple including a horizontal crown and two legs, which are arranged on the opposite sides of the crown, both the crown and the legs having a rectangular section; the stick comprising said metal staples, which are joined to one another and staggered in their length, so that the plane on which each staple lies is inclined with respect to the longitudinal axis of the stick, which is determined by passage through the barycentric point of the crown of all the staples.
2. The stick of metal staples according to claim 1, wherein both the crown and the legs of each staple have a section with the shape of a rectangle having a length equal to one and a half of a width.
3. The stick of metal staples according to claim 1, wherein said plane is inclined at approximately forty-five angular degrees.
4. The stapler with metal staples according to claim 1 comprising:
- a dispenser comprising: a channel, which houses at least one stick of metal staples and has a cross section that has the shape of a rectangle and is slightly larger than the corresponding cross section of the sticks, so that the sticks can slide therein when the stickes are pushed by a pusher; a head of the dispenser, the stick of metal staples always being kept pressed against said head; a pusher blade, which is arranged at an end of said dispenser and pushes the metal staples downwards so as to pierce sheets of the object to be joined;
- an actuating lever, which, by said pusher blade, pushes each single metal staple of the stick downwards;
- a case, which houses said dispenser and said actuating lever, provided with the compartment for receiving the sheets of the object to be joined and carries, on the support, a symmetric groove for flexing the legs of the metal staple so as to cause the legs to close;
- wherein the front surface of the pusher, the head of the magazine, and the symmetrical groove of the case are arranged at an angle with respect to the plane of the case with an angle that is equal to the angle of the metal staples of claim 1.
5. The stapler according to claim 4, wherein said angle is approximately of forty-five angular degrees.
6. The stapler according to claim 4, wherein said pusher blade slides in the grooves of the dispenser.
7. The stapler according to claim 4, wherein said dispenser, at the other end, is provided with a hooking hole for the pusher, which is actuated by the cylindrical spring and always keeps the stick of metal staples pressed against the head of said dispenser.
8. The stapler according to claim 4, wherein said case is provided with the pin, integral thereto, around which both the dispenser and the actuating lever rotate, said actuating lever always being kept open by a spring.
9. The stapler according to claim 8, wherein the case is provided with the compartment for receiving the sheets to be joined and carries, on the support for the overlapping sheets, the symmetric groove adapted to flex the legs of the metal staple so as to cause the legs to close.
10. The stapler according to claim 4, wherein said lever is provided with two holes, through which the pin of the case extends.
11. The stapler according to claim 10, wherein said lever has a lower part with a shape resembling that of the fingers of the operator's hand and, on said lower part, a hook, which is connected to a cylindrical pulling spring that is connected to the hook of the case; said actuating lever always being kept in an open position by said spring and, when said actuating lever is activated, by rotating around said pin, said actuating lever acts on said pusher blade by an end inserted into the rectangle of the pusher blade.
Type: Application
Filed: May 30, 2014
Publication Date: Dec 4, 2014
Inventor: Igino ROVATTI (Torino)
Application Number: 14/292,038
International Classification: B25C 5/02 (20060101); F16B 15/00 (20060101); F16B 15/08 (20060101); B25C 5/16 (20060101);